See soorce fer Palestine

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[[File:Historical region of Palestine (as defined by Palestinian Nationalism) showing Israel's 1948 and 1967 borders.svg|right|thumb|200px|[[Breetish Mandate o Palestine]] (green) an the borders o the day's [[Israel]], [[Wast Bank]] an [[Gaza Strip]]]]
[[File:Flag of Palestine - long triangle.svg|thumb|180px|Banner o Palestine]]
[[File:Mill_(British_Mandate_for_Palestine_currency,_1927).jpg|thumb|180px|Cunyie o Breetish Palestine wi the [[Arabic]], [[Inglis]], & [[Ebreu]] leids]]
'''Palestine''' ({{lang-ar| فلسطين}} {{transl|ar|''Filasṭīn''}}, {{transl|ar|''Falasṭīn''}}, 
{{transl|ar|''Filisṭīn''}}) is a conventional name uised, amang others, tae describe a geographic region atween the [[Mediterranean Sea]] an the [[Jordan River]], an sindry adjoinin lands.<ref name=PEF>{{cite web|title=The Palestine Exploration Fund|publisher=The [[Palestine Exploration Fund]]|url=http://www.pef.org.uk/oldsite/Paldef.htm|accessdate=2008-04-04|archive-date=2017-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805180851/http://www.pef.org.uk/oldsite/Paldef.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Oreegin o name ==
The name "Palestine" is the [[cognate]] o an ancient wird meanin "[[Philistines]]" or "Land o the Philistines".{{sfn|Sharon|1988|p=4}}<ref name=Roomp285>Room, 1997, p. 285.</ref><ref>Greek {{lang|el|Παλαιστινη}} from {{lang|el|Φυλιστινος/Φυλιστιειμ}}, see e.g. [[Josephus]], [[Antiquities of the Jews|''Antiquities'']] I.136; cf. First Book of Moses (Genesis) X.13.</ref> In keepin wi the Greek cultur o the day, it haes an aa been suggestit that it mey an aa be a play on the wird Παλαιστής ''Palaistes'' (Greek for wrestler) an a reference tae Jacob, later cawed Israel, the foonder o the ancient Israeli naition.<ref>{{cite web
 |url= http://www.jstor.org/pss/1357617?cookieSet=1
 |title=JSTOR: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 313 (Feb., 1999), pp. 65-74
 |work=jstor.org
 |accessdate=17 July 2010}}</ref>

The earliest kent mention is thocht tae be in [[Ancient Egyp]]tian texts o the temple at [[Medinet Habu (temple)|Medinet Habu]] which record a fowk cawed the ''P-r-s-t'' (conventionally ''Peleset'') amang the [[Sea Peoples]] who invadit [[Egypt]] in [[Ramesses III]]'s reign.{{sfn|Fahlbusch|Lochman|Bromiley|Barrett|2005|p=185}} The [[Ebreu]] name ''Peleshet'' ({{lang|he|פלשת}} ''Pəléshseth'')- uisually translatit as ''Philistia'' in Inglis, is uised in the [[Bible]] tae denote the soothren coastal region that wis inhabitit bi the Philistines tae the wast o the ancient [[Kinrick o Judah]].<ref>Lewis, 1993, p. 153.</ref>

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